Suspend all rules of economic reality. Because…you know…it’s not like they can just go work anyplace else.

“Federal and postal employees and their families are hardworking, middle-class Americans who are struggling during these tough times just like other Americans,”… “No other group has been asked to financially contribute the way they have, and it is time our nation’s leaders found other ways to reduce the deficit than continually taking from those who have dedicated their lives to public service.”